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“Only Gatsby, the man who gives his name to this book, was exempt from my reaction—Gatsby, who represented everything for which I have an unaffected scorn.”

- The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Chapter 1

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“When I came back from the East last autumn I felt that I wanted the world to be in uniform and at a sort of moral attention forever; I wanted no more riotous excursions with privileged glimpses into the human heart.”

- The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Chapter 1

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“Conduct may be founded on the hard rock or the wet marshes, but after a certain point I don’t care what it’s founded on.”

- The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Chapter 1

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“And, after boasting this way of my tolerance, I come to the admission that it has a limit.”

- The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Chapter 1

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“I am still a little afraid of missing something if I forget that, as my father snobbishly suggested, and I snobbishly repeat, a sense of the fundamental decencies is parcelled out unequally at birth.”

- The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Chapter 1

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“Reserving judgments is a matter of infinite hope.”

- The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Chapter 1

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“Most of the confidences were unsought—frequently I have feigned sleep, preoccupation, or a hostile levity when I realized by some unmistakable sign that an intimate revelation was quivering on the horizon; for the intimate revelations of young men, or at least the terms in which they express them, are usually plagiaristic and marred by obvious suppressions.”

- The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Chapter 1

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“The abnormal mind is quick to detect and attach itself to this quality when it appears in a normal person, and so it came about that in college I was unjustly accused of being a politican, because I was privy to the secret griefs of wild, unknown men.”

- The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Chapter 1

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“In consequence, I’m inclined to reserve all judgments, a habit which has opened up many curious natures to me and also made me the victim of not a few veteran bores.”

- The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Chapter 1

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“He didn’t say any more, but we’ve always been unusually communicative in a reserved way, and I understood that he meant a great deal more than that.”

- The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Chapter 1

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“Whenever you feel like criticizing any one,” he told me, “just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.”

- The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Chapter 1

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“In my younger and more vulnerable years, my father gave me some advice that I’ve been turning over in my mind ever since.”

- The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Chapter 1

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